HTC Legend May Join Nexus One in Google's Android Store infoSync World

One of the two new smartphones with Google's Android mobile operating system that High Tech Computer (HTC) plans to start selling in March isn't officially billed as an update to Nexus One, but its design is similar and it offers improvements over the Google phone.

The similarity is no big surprise considering HTC built Nexus One for Google.

The HTC Desire, as the handset is called, carries specifications nearly identical to the Nexus One with a few key changes.

The two handsets both sport 3.7-inch AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) touchscreens, use Android version 2.1 (Eclair), are almost identical in size and depth, carry 5-megapixel cameras with flash and use 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets.


One improvement in the HTC Desire is the use of an optical joystick as an alternative to using the touchscreen. Nexus One has a trackball for the same function, and trackballs tend to get dirty over time. The optical joystick is touch free.

The HTC Desire also adds FM radio, which the Nexus One lacks.

Another difference to the two handsets is an updated version of HTC's Sense user interface (UI) on Desire. The new UI makes improvements on a number of important areas, including social networking, Internet browsing, e-mail and contact management.

The UI adds Friend Stream, a view of messages coming from various social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as a new way to use the touchscreen to see all seven main screens by pinching two fingers together on the screen.

The UI also puts a person's contacts into new groups so a single text message can be sent to a specific group of friends. It offers better e-mail management than the previous version, including an Unread E-mail Group for unread e-mail from all addresses, as well as the ability to Add Widgets such as Call Mom, which starts green and turns red over time if Mom's phone number is dialed, or a widget to split dinner bills or perform other tasks.

Nokia N8 Features, Review & Specifications

Introduction :

Nokia N8 will be available in India coming soon, price of N8 is approx  Rs. 25,000/- 

Features Review and Specifications are following:

Dimensions

·   Size: 113.5 x 59 x 12.9 mm

·   Weight (with battery): 135 g

·   Volume: 86 cc

·   Screen size: 3.5"

·   Resolution: 16:9 nHD (640 x 360 pixels) AMOLED

·   16.7 million colours

·   Capacitive touch screen

·   Orientation sensor (Accelerometer)

·   Compass (Magnetometer)

·   Proximity sensor

·   Ambient light detector

Colours

·   Anodized aluminium casing, available in:

o    Silver white

o    Dark grey

o    Orange

o    Blue

o    Green

·   Colour availability varies by country

Power Management

·   BL-4D 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery

·   Talk-time (maximum):

o    GSM 720 mins

o    WCDMA 350 mins

·   Standby time (maximum):

o    GSM 390 h

o    WCDMA 400 h

·   Video playback time (H.264 720p, 30 fps, maximum): 6 h (via HDMI to TV)

·   Video recording time (H.264 720p, 25 fps, maximum): 3 h 20 mins

·   Video call time (maximum): 160 mins

·   Internal memory: 16 GB music playback time (offline mode, maximum): 50 h

Memory

·   Internal memory: 16 GB

·   MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 32 GB

Operating Frequency

·   GSM/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900

·   WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100

·   Automatic switching between WCDMA & GSM bands

·   Flight mode

Data Network

·   GPRS/EDGE class B, multislot class 33

·   HSDPA Cat9, maximum speed up to 10.2 Mbps, HSUPA Cat5 2.0 Mbps

·   WLAN IEEE802.11 b/g/n

·   TCP/IP support

·   Capability to serve as data modem

·   Support for MS Outlook synchronisation of contacts, calendar and notes

Connectivity

·   Bluetooth 3.0

·   HDMI

·   2mm Charging connector

·   Micro USB connector and charging

·   High-Speed USB 2.0 (micro USB connector)

o    USB On-the-Go

·   3.5 mm AV connector

o    FM Radio

o    FM Transmitter

Software platform & user interface

·   Symbian ^3 for Nokia

·   Java MIDP 2.1

·   Qt 4.6.2, Web Runtime 7.2

o    HTML 4.1

·   Software updates Over the Air (FOTA) & Over the internet (FOTI)

·   Flash Lite 4.0

·   OMA DM 1.2, OMA Client provisioning 1.1

Applications

·   Key applications: Calendar, Contacts, music player, internet, messaging, photos, Ovi Store, Maps, Videos, WebTV, Office document viewers, Video & photo editor, Mail, Radio

·   PC Applications: Nokia Ovi Suite, Nokia Ovi Player

·   Easy-to-use email client with attachment support for images, videos, music and documents .doc, .xls, .ppt, .pdf, .zip

·   Unified push email client supporting multiple protocols: Yahoo!® Mail, Gmail™, Windows Live™, Hotmail and other popular POP/IMAP services, Mail for Exchange, IBM Lotus traveler

Browsing and internet

·   Supported markup languages: HTML, XHTML MP, WML, CSS

·   Supported protocols: HTTP v1.1, WAP

·   TCP/IP support

·   Visual history, HTML and JavaScript support

·   Flash Lite 4 will support a majority of Flash Player 10.1 content

GPS and navigation

·   Integrated GPS, A-GPS receivers

·   Ovi Maps with free car & pedestrian navigation

·   Wi-Fi Positioning

·   Compass and accelerometer for correct orientation of display

·   Use Nokia Ovi Suite to get the latest country maps for Ovi Maps on N8 for free

Camera

·   12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics

·   Large 1/1.183" optical format image sensor

·   Fullscreen 16:9 viewfinder with easy-to-use touchscreen parameters

·   Xenon flash with automatic red-eye removal

·   Face tracking/detection software

·   Autofocus

·   Focal length: 5.9 mm (equivalent to 28mm in 35mm film format)

·   F number/Aperture: F2.8

·   Still images file format: JPEG/EXIF

·   Zoom up to 2x (digital) for still images

·   Zoom up to 3x (digita) for video

·   Secondary camera for video calls (QVGA, 640 x 480 pixels), still image and video capture

·   Favourite settings feature

·   Still camera manual controls for white balance, scene mode, exposure compensation, colour tone, viewfinder framing grid, sharpness, contrast, flash control, light sensitivity (ISO), self-timer, face detection

Image capture

·   Automatic location tagging (Geotagging) of images and videos

·   Images automatically taken in the correct orientation

·   Pinch zoom in Photos image viewer

·   View photos by tag cloud, month, album, slide show

·   Photo editor

·   Online Share with connectivity to popular sharing services

 Video cameras

·   Main camera

o    12 megapixel with Carl Zeiss optics

o    HD quality 720p resolution

o    Shoot 16:9 videos in HD

o    3x digital zoom

·   Video capture in 720p 25 fps with codecs H.264, MPEG-4

·   Ambient stereo audio recording in video (AAC 128kbps, 48 kHz sampling) plus new algorithms to reduce wind noise and control recording level in harsh environments

·   Settings for low light (reduced frame rate), white balance, colour tone

·   Secondary camera for video calls (QVGA, 640 x 480 pixels), still image and video capture

Video codecs & formats

·   H.264 (base profile, main profile, high profile), MPEG-4, VC-1, Sorenson Spark, Real video 10

·   Streaming: H.264, Flash Lite 4 (Flash 10 compatibility for video), On2 VP6, Sorenson Spark

Video sharing and playback

·   HD 720p Video playback on HD TV through HDMI cable

·   *Dolby Digital Plus surround sound when played with HDMI & a home theatre

·   Support for download, streaming, and progressive download

·   Video editing software

·   Videos application: collection of stored videos

·   On demand WebTV widgets to watch local & global internet streaming TV

·   Support for Flash video

·   YouTube browsing and streaming

·   Video call support (WCDMA network services)

Music features

·   Flick scroll to browse the albums in your music collection

·   Comes with Music service on selected markets

·   Nokia Music Player

·   Ovi Music store

·   Music codecs: .MP3, WMA, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, AMR-NB, AMR-WB

·   Bit rate up tp 320 kbps

·   DRM support WM DRM, OMA DRM 2.0

·   FM transmitter

Radio

·   Stereo FM radio (87.5-108 MHz/76-90 MHz)

 Gaming

·   Use the touch UI to play games

·   Dedicated processor for 2D/3D graphics acceleration. Support for OpenGL ES 2.0, OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenVG 1.1

·   Java games

·   Use the accelerometer to play games

Energy efficiency

·   Power Save mode, ambient light sensor, unplug charger reminder, Nokia Compact Travel Charger AC-15

Materials

·   Free of PVC, free of nickel on the product surface, free of brominated & chlorinated compounds and free of antimony trioxide as defined in Nokia Substance List

Packaging

·   Made of renewable, 100 % recyclable

Eco content and services

·   Reduced size printed user guide in the sales package, full user guide in the device memory and web
Maps for route optimization and pedestrian navigation

Recycling

·   Device is up to 80 % recyclable

Google's Chrome OS Coming To Tablets and TVs, Windows And System Admins Going Down

Google's Chrome OS has likely been pushed into 2011, Google is still saying that they will release something before the end of the year. Based on messages in the open source Chromium forums, it would seem that this will be a beta version of the OS. One that yes, will be running on their own device that they’re currently dogfood testing (testing within the company).

But what may be most interesting in the NYT report is what Linus Upson, Google’s Vice President of Engineering in charge of Chrome, had to say about the new OS:

But Mr. Upson said that Chrome OS would be a computing platform stretching to hand-held devices, tablets and TVs. “We are starting with laptops and we will expand in both directions,” he said.

This seems opposed to what Google CEO Eric Schmidt said last week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. When he was asked if Chrome OS and Android would compete with one another, he said that they current felt that Android was better geared towards touch surfaces, while Chrome OS was better for devices with keyboards.Obviously, Android is currently Google’s OS for handheld devices, tablets, and TVs (it is what Google TV runs on top of). Upson’s comments suggest that the Chrome OS will eventually go head to head with Android in those areas. Further, mock-ups done on the Chromium website show Google’s current line of thinking for how the new OS could work on such devices.

And while Google says there is no conflict between the two teams building each product, it’s clearly a bit of a confusing situation for both consumers and for Google executives as well.When Google co-founder Sergey Brin was asked about the co-existence of the two earlier this year, he stated another belief: that the two would eventually merge. Essentially, the line of thinking seems to be that apps are needed right now as pure web technologies like HTML5 aren’t quite where they need to be yet. As those technologies mature, it would seem as if the idea behind Chrome OS is more in line with Google’s mission than Android is. That is, all you need is the web.


Chrome OS: one giant pink slip for sys admins.

Obviously, Upson’s comments are likely an overly optimistic view of what could go down when Chrome OS is released. But I, for one, am extremely excited for it. I would estimate that 95 percent of everything I do on a computer in a given day is now in a web browser. And several of the things in the other 5 percent — like taking notes — I could do in the browser, I just don’t for whatever reason

Apple iPhone 4 Coming India Soon...

GENERAL	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2010, June
	Status	Available. Released 2010, June

SIZE	Dimensions	115.2 x 58.6 x 9.3 mm
	Weight	137 g

DISPLAY	Type	LED-backlit IPS TFT, capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	640 x 960 pixels, 3.5 inches
		- Scratch-resistant oleophobic surface - Multi-touch input method - Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate - Three-axis gyro sensor - Proximity sensor for auto turn-off

SOUND	Alert types	Vibration, MP3 ringtones
	Speakerphone	Yes
		- 3.5 mm headset jack

MEMORY	Phonebook	Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
	Call records	100 received, dialed and missed calls
	Internal	16/32 GB storage, 512 MB RAM
	Card slot	No

DATA	GPRS	Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
	EDGE	Class 10, 236.8 kbps
	3G	HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n
	Bluetooth	Yes, v2.1 with A2DP
	Infrared port	No
	USB	Yes, v2.0

CAMERA	Primary	5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
	Features	Touch focus, geo-tagging
	Video	Yes, 720p@30fps, LED video light, geo-tagging
	Secondary	Yes, videocalling over Wi-Fi only

FEATURES	OS	iOS 4
	CPU	1 GHz Apple A4 processor
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
	Browser	HTML (Safari)
	Radio	No
	Games	Downloadable, incl. motion-based
	Colors	Black, White
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	No
		- MicroSIM card support only - Scratch-resistant glass back panel - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - Digital compass - Google Maps - Audio/video player and editor - Voice command/dial - TV-out

BATTERY		Standard battery, Li-Po 1420mAh
	Stand-by	Up to 300 h (2G) / Up to 300 h (3G)
	Talk time	Up to 14 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)
	Music play	Up to 40 h